Senior Software Engineer, Public Backup

<p>The MongoDB Cloud Services Team is a diverse group of contributors working together to help our users manage MongoDB at global scale. The Cloud Team is responsible for MongoDB Atlas: our database as a service offering, and fastest growing product, which allows users to deploy fault-tolerant, globally distributed MongoDB clusters in just minutes.</p> <p>The Backup Team delivers essential infrastructure to help our customers in their hour of need - providing the ability to quickly restore a massive, distributed database to any point in time at the click of a button. The Backup Team’s mission is to make MongoDB backup more reliable, faster, and also cheaper.&nbsp; This team is responsible for the Backup Agent (Go), the extensive server-side infrastructure (Java) which manages 100s of TB of data and processes billions of operations per day, and the user interface (Javascript)&nbsp; that customers use to manage their backups.&nbsp; Common project themes are performance, scaling, and ease of use.&nbsp;</p> <h3><strong>We're looking for someone who is</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Skilled at writing large-scale, distributed backend systems in a compiled language (Java, C#, Go, etc.)</li> <li>Fond of chasing down tough problems in a distributed systems environment</li> <li>Cool under pressure - has wrangled production crises, and secretly finds this a little fun</li> <li>Experienced with Linux, and able to correlate application performance problems with underlying hardware limits</li> <li>Comfortable working across the stack of a modern web application</li> <li>Always striving to expand their knowledge</li> <li>Curious, collaborative and intellectually honest&nbsp;</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Work closely with product teams, considering the user’s perspective while helping the team achieve success</li> <li>Collaborate with team members over best practices and core concepts</li> <li>Hold yourself accountable to your actions, maintaining the balance between accomplishing goals with research &amp; development</li> <li>Own<a href="https://www.mongodb.com/company"> our core values</a> and adhere to them in your work, and</li> <li>Stay up to date with best practices in web engineering&nbsp;</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Success Measures</strong></h3> <p>A Software Engineer will be successful in this role when they</p> <ul> <li>Are open, honest and willing to contribute and collaborate with others</li> <li>Develop confidence in finding their way across the platform</li> <li>Can take responsibility for the planning and execution of a major feature, representing Engineering when w